The 5 Most Addictive Substances On The Planet, Ranked
By Erin Brodwin and Shayanne Gal
16 Mar 2018, 17:28
As anyone who has drunk a cup of coffee knows, not all drugs are equally harmful. Caffeine, the most widely consumed psychoactive drug on earth, is not a danger to human health.
To give people an idea of the most dangerous substances, a team of psychiatrists, chemists, and pharmacologists at the UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists systematically ranked them based on three factors: how much physical harm they cause, how addictive they are, and how much damage they do to society as a whole, judging by things like costs spent on healthcare. They published their findings in the medical journal The Lancet.
Here are the drugs that rank highest for dependency:
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-5-most-addictive-substances-on-the-planet-ranked/
